Phyllis Bennis spoke in Santa Cruz on April 30, 2007 on the subject of “Challenging Empire: How People, Governments and the UN defy US power”, also the name of one of her books.
Phyllis Bennis is a fellow at the Institute For Policy Studies in Washington DC and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is also co-founder of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and was a featured speaker at the Jewish Voice For Peace Conference in Oakland, Ca. on April 28-29, 2007. She is the author of many books including “Before and After: US Foreign Policy & The War on Terrorism”, Understanding the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Primer”, “Challenging Empire”, and “Calling The Shots: How Washington Dominates The UN”.
For years Bennis has worked to end the US war and occupation in Iraq, and supports a just and comprehensive peace based on an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine. She works closely with the United For Peace and Justice anti-war coalition, and has played an active role in the growing global peace movement.
Her books are available from Interlink Books and Publishing.
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“There’s no question that the war in Iraq — the U.S. invasion, the occupation — has made Iraq into what it never was before: a center of this kind of global terrorism.”
Phyllis Bennis